mediainfo.yazi (fork)

• mediainfo.yazi (fork)
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  • Custom theme

This is a Yazi plugin for previewing media files. The preview shows thumbnail using ffmpeg if available and media metadata using mediainfo.

Important

Minimum version: yazi v25.5.31.

Preview

• Video

  

• Audio file with cover

  

• Images

  

• Subtitle

  

• SVG+XML file doesn't have useful information, so it only show the image preview.

• There are more file extensions which are supported by mediainfo. Just add file's MIME type to prepend_previewers, prepend_preloaders. Use spotter to determine File's MIME type. Default is <Tab> key

Installation

• Install mediainfo CLI:

  • https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download

  • Run this command in terminal to check if it's installed correctly:

    mediainfo --version

    If it output Not found then add it to your PATH environment variable. It's better to ask ChatGPT to help you (Prompt: Add MediaInfo CLI to PATH environment variable in Windows).

• Install ImageMagick (for linux, you can use your distro package manager to install): https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php

• Install this plugin:

  ya pkg add boydaihungst/mediainfo

Configuration:

Important

mediainfo use built-in video, image, svg, magick plugins behind the scene to render preview image, song cover. So you can remove those 4 plugins from prepend_preloaders and prepend_previewers sections in yazi.toml.

If you have cache problem, run this cmd, and follow the tips: yazi --clear-cache

Config folder for each OS: https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/configuration/overview.

Create .../yazi/yazi.toml and add:

Important

For yazi nightly replace name with url

[plugin]
  prepend_preloaders = [
    # Replace magick, image, video with mediainfo
    { mime = "{audio,video,image}/*", run = "mediainfo" },
    { mime = "application/subrip", run = "mediainfo" },
    # Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop is image/adobe.photoshop, already handled above
    { mime = "application/postscript", run = "mediainfo" },
  ]
  prepend_previewers = [
    # Replace magick, image, video with mediainfo
    { mime = "{audio,video,image}/*", run = "mediainfo"},
    { mime = "application/subrip", run = "mediainfo" },
    # Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop is image/adobe.photoshop, already handled above
    { mime = "application/postscript", run = "mediainfo" },
  ]
  # There are more extensions which are supported by mediainfo.
  # Just add file's MIME type to `previewers`, `preloaders` above.
  # https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Support/Formats

# For a large file like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, etc
# you may need to increase the memory limit if no image is rendered.
# https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/configuration/yazi#tasks
[tasks]
  image_alloc      = 1073741824        # = 1024*1024*1024 = 1024MB

Custom theme

Using the same style with spotter. Read more

Edit or add yazi/theme.toml:

[spot]
# Section header style.
# Example: Video, Text, Image,... with green color in preview images above
title = { fg = "green" }

# Value style.
# Example: `Format: FLAC` with blue color in preview images above
tbl_col = { fg = "blue" }